Homemade pinholga floppy disc shutter
Posted 26 September, 2006 in Pinhole + Camera Hacking & DIY
Check out Will Luo’s sweet 3rd-generation homemade pinholga floppy disc shutter. He writes:
the third incarnation of the pinholga’s shutter. i got the idea of using a floppy disk from this blog entry. this one is customized for the holga though. it was much easier and faster to make than the last version:
1. cut off the part of the disk that has the spring-loaded protector. the disk i got had some soft paper coating inside which i removed as well.
2. make a small cut here and bend the corner up to make a small "handle" that can be used to push the floppy door open. i glued a little piece of foam there to make it less slippery for the cable release…
Continue reading at Luo’s Flickr photostream.
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Pingback from Jazznrhythm´s corner » Linküberschuss: Mal wieder Holga over allez :-)
September 27, 2006 at 2:00 pm -
[…] Es zerreisst mich ja fast, wenn ich sehe, dass es da draußen Leute gibt, die ihrer Holga das Objektiv absäblen, aber wenn dann jemand aus seiner Holga und einer Dreieinhalbzolldiskette eine Pinhole macht, dann ist das schon irgendwie bemerkenswert. Ich kenne einige Menschen , die wären von dieser Idee total begeistert. ( Wäre die Fotocommunity nicht in die Tiefe des digitalen Nirvanas gesaust, dann könnte ich jetzt einen Link zu Bernie S. bauen.) […]
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